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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Since April 2014, Sara Spike’s Small History NS Twitter feed and Tumblr blog have reached hundreds of followers with daily news from rural and small-town Nova Scotia, c.1880-1910. Drawn from her dissertation research, these tweets chart seasonal rhythms of labour, leisure, land, and sea with updates such as: The first wild strawberries... A... More
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
We're pleased to announce that History M.A. student Kathryn Boschmann has won one of 25 Storyteller Awards provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her project "A Prairie Home: Migration of Winnipeg's Irish Canadians" explores how first generation Irish immigrants to Manitoba talked about and processed their... More
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
How can historians give back to their communities? Public History MA student Sara Nixon was on CBC Ottawa Morning on Monday January 19 to talk about just that. It's a topic she has explored in detail through the development of her smartphone application, Grimsby Timescapes. Through her blog, as well as her research, Sara... More
Monday, December 15, 2014
Researchers at Carleton have recently launched MobilityHistories.ca, a virtual exhibit on the history of the wheelchair. The exhibit is unique in that it brings together scholars from the fields of biomedical engineering, social work, and history. History doctoral candidate Dorothy-Jane Smith led the research efforts of a group supervised by Dr.... More
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Professor David Dean, and Emily Keyes, a student in the Museums, National Identity and Public Memory seminar, talk to CBC's Ottawa Morning about their collaboration with the Canadian Museum of History developing the museum's new gallery. Listen at http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/Ontario/ID/2623116818/?page=2 For more... More
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
What was the global impact of thalidomide? On September 24th, the Department of History, the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies/Disability Studies, and the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University came together to host two speakers to Ottawa as part of a day-long meeting on the transnational history of the infamous drug thalidomide.... More
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Carleton Public History students are currently gaining valuable experience in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of History, participating in the development of the Museum’s signature gallery, the Canadian History Hall. Scheduled to open in 2017, the Hall will be the largest, most comprehensive and engaging exhibition about Canadian history... More
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Marie-Anne Gagnon, Public History MA student, and her major research project are currently being featured on the Graduate Studies website. To learn more about Marie-Anne's research on representations of Aboriginal foods in late-1960's Canadian cookbooks, read the full story below: Let Them Eat Cake - Graduate... More
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Doctoral student Sean Eedy has published an article in an upcoming issue of the new Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. The article is entitled "Reimagining GDR Comics: Kultur, Childhood Development, and the Socialist Personality." The issue will be released in June... More
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The 3 Minute Thesis competition (3MT), that was held at Carleton on March 6, is an event that challenged graduate students to communicate the key idea of their research in 3 minutes or less. Judges evaluated their ability to effectively and succinctly communicate their research to a general audience. The History Department's own Martha... More
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